Wood substitute



Feb. 26 1924. 4

I r J. W. SHERIDAN WOOD SUBSTITUTE Filed Sept. 19,

INVENTOR fameJ WAY/261121 6171,

WITNESSES A TTORNEYS Patented Feb. 26 1924.

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JAMES W. SHERIDAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WOOD SUBSTITUTE.

Application filed September 19, 1921. Serial No. 501,646.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES IV. SHERIDAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Astoria, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and St'ate of New York, have invented a new and Improved WVood Substitute, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a. composition of matter, and has particular reference to a composition to be used as a substitute for wood.

An object of the invention is to provide a composition of matter formed of materials which are comparatively cheap to buy, easily compounded, and which when so prepared form a very efiicient substitute for wood as to strength, appearance and wear.

Another object of the invention is to provide a composition of matter as a substitute for wood which is non-inflammable.

Further objects of the invention will appear from the following description and claim taken in connection with the drawings.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings, of which- Figure l is a plan view of a toilet seat made from my composition; and

Figure 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

In the drawings I have shown a toilet seat as an article of manufacture which canbe made from my composition of matter, although it is readily apparent and should be understood that this form is shown merely for the purpose of illustrating an application of the invention and that many other forms and structures may be produced by using my composition of matter without departing from the spirit of the invention.

My composition comprises a substitute for wood, made of sawdust, talc, cork and shel lac. The preferred proportions of the ingreclients above mentioned are as follows: three parts of sawdust, two parts of talc, one

part of cork, and enou h shellac to bind the materials together. Tie sawdust, talc and cork are first prepared separately to get them to the proper degree of fineness, after which they are thoroughly mixedtogether. The shellac is then added in the desired quantity, after which the mixture or mass can be molded into any desired form and by any well known process.

In the drawings the composition of matter is represented by the numeral 1. As molded the toilet seat also comprises a strip of heavy cardboard or pasteboard 2 which, in the form of the invention shown, is an annular ring of material. Also disposed throughout the composition are a plurality of rods or bars of wood 3. The strips of paste board and the rods of wood are placed within the molded article, not only to occupy a certain space in the interior of the article to be molded, whereby considerably less shellac is required to bind the materialtogether, but also because they contribute to some extent to the strength of the article being molded.

It is apparent, of course, that as the shape and form of the article being constructed from my composition vary, the size and shape of the reinforcing elements 2 and 3 are varied to suit the mechanical requirements of the article being produced. It is also apparent that I have provided an inexpensively prepared, simple and efficient composition which is a substitute for wood and can be very readily prepared in any desired form. This composition not only has the strength of wood but its surface can be, in any desired and well known manner, finished or painted to simulate wooden .sur' faces, and in addition is non-inflammable.

Vhat I claim is:

A composition of'matter as a substitute for wood, which comprises three parts of sawdust, two parts of t'alc, one part of cork, and shellac as a binder.

JAMES WV. SHERIDAN. 

